Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Healthcare Providers regarding the Blast injuries management at Tertiary care hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 5
Abstract
The objective of this study is evaluate the knowledge and awareness of our healthcare providers regarding major types of blast injuries and their attitudes and practices while dealing with blast injury patients in Karachi, Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey was conducted at three major government hospitals (Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, Civil Hospital Karachi and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi) from August 2013 to January 2014. Our target population for the survey included a total of 102 Surgical Postgraduate trainees and house officers (Interns) of the above said hospitals which were recruited using purposive non-probability sampling technique. A self-constructed questionnaire was prepared by the researchers and administered to the target population. The data was analyzed using SPSS 16.0. The variables were cross-tabulated to identify possible relationships. Out of total of 102, 50% of the data was collected from civil hospital Karachi, 51% of those were house officers, belonged under the age group of less or equal 25 years, and 75.5% were females with unmarried proportion of 66.7% of total. It was found that a total of 46 respondents had attended the patients from blast injuries in past whereas 56 had never attended a patient with blast injuries. 15.22% cases who did attend patients from bomb blast scored zero on knowledge related questions, 2.18% cases got maximum score of 10, and 47.83 cases scored minimally which was one out of ten. There was positive association between, the above two groups, with awareness of injuries, attainment of training, and interest in participation of such training programs. A positive association among hospitals must needs, specialty and equipment to handle such cases and those who had attended the patients with blast injuries was also observed. On the basis of findings, we can conclude that, although, respondents have shown through their responses that they do have attitude and practicing on managing blast injuries patients and that’s mainly because of frequent exposure to such patients in these hospitals but no formal training was ever given to any of these doctors and thus, their knowledge regarding bomb blast injuries was found to be highly insufficient. Keywords: Bomb Blast injuries, trauma, Tertiary care hospitals, Pakistan
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Atif Mahmood, Abira Aftab, Mamoona Shafiq
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